Humanities Postmodern Art

1. POSTMODERN ART
POSTDERNISM
• The 20th century art, which is known as modern art is
characterized by purity of form and technique.
• Modern/traditional era see the world as fixed and determined ;
postmodern thinking sees the world as a complex and uncertain
place.
• The postmodern movement emerged with the aim of
eliminating the bounaries between high (elite or serious art)
popular culture, and the media.
• Postmodern is describes as mod rather than as discipline.
This is an attempt to find a new and more truthful version of the
world.
• Art and Philosophy are closely linked and related in terms of
the message and the ideology of an artist.

2. POSTMODE ART
• It is the term used to describe an art movement which was thought
to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have
emergherd or developed in it's aftermath.

3. Reasons for the Decline of Modern Art:
1. Increasing naturalism of the nineteenth century led, for
those who had not shaken off their religous heritage, to a
feeling of being alone and without guidance in a vast,
empty universe.
2. The rise of philophical theories of Skepticism and
irrationalism led many to distrust their cognitive faculties
or perception and reason.
3. Th development of scientific theories such as evolution
and entrophy brought with the pessimistic accounts of
human nature and the destiny of the world.

4. MOVEMENTS IN POSTMODERN ART:
1. Minimalism- describes movements in various forms of
art and design, especially visual art and music, where
the work is stripped down to it's most fundamental
features.
2. Post-minimalism- the term was used by Robert Pincuss
Witten in 1977 to described minimalist derived art,
which had content and contextual overtones that
minimalism rejected.
3. New-classism- The central movement of this art is
reinvention and return to classical painting and
sculptures. This movement is often referred to as
classical realism.

5. FORMS OF POSTMODERN ART
RELATIONAL ART
- Relational art (relationalism) as defined by Nicolas Bourriaud, is a set of
artistic practices which take as their theoritical and practical point of departure the
whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent.
CONCEPTUAL ART
- This form of art is involved in deconstructionism movement. It deconstructs
what makes a work of art ''ART''.
INSTALLATION ART
- Installation art includes creation of artifacts which are conceptual in nature.
LOWBROW ART
- Lowbrow art is a widespread populist art movement which traces it's origin in
the underground world, punk music, hot-rod, street culture, and other California
subcultures. It is often known as Pop surrealism . This movement is the highlight of
postmodernism which replaced the traditional ''high'' and ''low''.
POP ART
- Pop art is generally multi-colored and using repetitive images.

6. Postmodernism, first applied to architecture, is also used to refer to
developments in other art forms that are characterized by several
approaches to styles, medium and interpretation; and a rejection of
modernism.
Th works of Postmedernism are characterized by their subjectivism,
regional character, interest in social and political issues and their
electric character.
Modern paintings could be summed ups as being reduced to
essence and the act of painting in paint and canvas.

7. POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE
• It is generally thought to be heralded by the
return of ''wit, ornament and reference'' to
architecture inresponse to be formalism of the
International Style of modernism.

8. POSTMODERN MUSIC
• It is a music that follows the postmodernist
ideology.
Postmederm music is mostly defined in
opposition to modernist music, and a work can
either be modernist or postmodernist but not
both.

9. POSTMODERN DANCE
• It is a 20th century concert dance form.
A reaction to the compositional and
presentation of constraints of modern dance,
postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday
movement as valid performance art and
advocated novel methods of dance composition.

10. POSTMODERN FILM
• This describes the articulation of ideas of
postmodernism through the cinematic
medium. Postmedernist film upsets the
mainstream conventions of narative structure
and characterization and destroys (or, at
least, toys with) the audience's suspension of
disbelief to create a work in which a
less-recognizable internal logic forms the
film's means of expression.

11. POSTMODERN THEATER
This is a recent phenomenon in a world theater,
coming as it does out of the postmodern
philosophy that originated in Europe in the 1960's.
Postmodern theater emergherd as a reaction
against modernist theater.

12. POSTMODERN LITERATURE
It describes the tendecies in post- World War II
literature.

13. CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERNISM
1. THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
2. TRUTH AND ERROR ARE SYNONYMOUS.
3. SELF-CONCEPTUALIZATION AND
RATIONALIZATION.
4. TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY IS FALSE AND
CORRUPT.
5.OWNERSHIP.
6. DISSULUSIONMENT WITH MODERNISM.
7.MORALITY IS PERSONAL.
8. GLOBALIZATION.
9. ALL REGIONS ARE VALID.
10. LIBERAL ETHICS.
11. PRO-ENVIRONMENTALISM.

14. GROUP 8
ANJELIQUE PASANA
KATE AGUILING
STEPHANIE HUGO
PAUL VICTOR VASQUEZ